I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.

Diet corresponding to blood type, not food hype.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.

Kundalini Yoga will dawn on you the secret of how to be Healthy, Happy and Holy.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

What you stand for is more important than what you stand in.

I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.